Based in North Wales, Stuff and Nonsense is a small, but popular, web design studio, founded and led by designer and author Andy Clarke. We started back in 1998 and have built an enviable reputation for designing highly effective web sites, ecommerce stores and web applications for our clients.
We create web sites that are visually engaging, use technologies appropriately, have high levels of accessibility and that satisfy the needs of the people that use them. We focus on making simple, useable and attractive web sites using web standards technologies including XHTML and CSS; heck, we even wrote a book about it, Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design.
So why do our clients love us, and why do they keep coming back? We think it's because we are so passionate about our work. We love designing for the web. With every job we do, we try to learn something new about how to do things better.
Andy Clarke is hip and mature. You almost never get both. He is a seasoned brand steward, a fancy pixel wrangler, and no mean hand at code. A triple talent. The bastard.
Jeffrey Zeldman, Happy Cog | Testimonials
It is because of this passion and our attention to the finest details, that we have attracted some big names to our small studio in North Wales. We also regularly promote creative, accessible, standards-based design in our writing, at conference, training and workshop events as well as in our everyday work.
Microformats: The Fine Art of Markup
Peachpit Web Design Reference have published the first in a series of my articles on Microformats, Microformats: The Fine Art of Markup. In this series instead of focussing on the technical aspects that so many people have done far better, I will be combining talk of Microformats with the wider issue of the importance of writing meaningful mark-up. I'll be finishing up each of the subsequent articles with what are hope are cool new ways to style Microformat rich mark-up using CSS.
More | December 19th 2007
CSS Working Group proposals
My entry of last week, where I called for the current W3C CSS Working Group to be immediately disbanded, has generated some serious debate, and a few raised voices. I'm glad that is happening. Now, after a little more consideration, I thought I would outline some concrete proposals for how the CSS Working Group could change for the better.
More | December 16th 2007
